One we missed during the week. Urbanwear designer and self-described "navigator of youth culture", Marc Ecko was granted a city permit to throw his graffiti-art street demonstration, scheduled for Wednesday. Ecko had filed suit on August 19 to reinstate his permit for the block-long party, which was revoked by the city on July 18. The problem: Ten 48-foot-long replicas of the city's old blue-bird subway cars, which would serve as personal canveses for 20 well-known graffiti artists. "Look, there is a fine line here between freedom of expression and going out and encouraging people to hurt this city," Mayor Michael Bloomberg had said. "Defacing subway cars is hardly a joke; encouraging people, kids in particular, to do that after all the money we've spent, all the time we've spent removing graffiti." Said the 32-year-old Ecko about his win, "Today is further affirmation that graffiti is without question the most powerful art movement in recent history. This event was conceived as a tribute to the roots of graffiti culture, a time in New York City's history that I chose to believe was worth fighting to preserve." Ecko was left with no other choice but to go to court, he said, "when the City asked us to change our chosen art canvas and, as such, tried to censor my First Amendment rights and those of these great artists by attempting to dictate how we express ourselves." [VILLAGE VOICE via Agenda Inc.]